A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness. She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I. The Desert and the Sown is a chronicle, illustrated by over 160 photos, of Bell's 1905 journey from Jericho to Antioch, a land of warring tribes under Turkish control.
- ISBN10 0486468763
- ISBN13 9780486468761
- Publish Date 26 December 2008 (first published 1 January 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English